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    sport marans:

    Recessive white should give you pure white chicks. White with black flecks is usually from Dominant White, which turns black to white but can be a bit leaky. If your hen produced chicks with Dominant White, then their father would have to have the Dominant White gene, which would cause white in...
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    Uses for boiled eggs?

    I like them sliced on top of a green salad. Or, if I'm feeling lazy, I just take the shells off the eggs, squirt a little ranch dressing on them, and skip the lettuce & other veggies. You can put a few in potato salad.
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    sport marans:

    It typically works better to start a new thread and include some pictures. Also, when you use abbreviations, please write it out in full at least once. In this case, BCM is a common abbreviation for Black Copper Marans and Blue Copper Marans and Blue Cuckoo Marans. Depending on which ones you...
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    New Chicks Have Arrived!! Yellow is the extra?

    Every "blue" egg I have ever seen, looked to me like it was really a greenish-blue. That may say more about how I describe colors than it says about the actual color of the eggs ;) The usual understanding is that the eggshell is either blue or white through most of its thickness, and then it...
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    Hen with very pale comb for months

    You basically turn him upside down and part the feathers to see his vent (look at color/size/texture), and feel with your fingers for the tips of two bones that are below the vent (close together, just below the vent, is not laying. Further apart and further down is laying.) Nothing too...
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    Hen with very pale comb for months

    You could try this: https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/who-is-laying-and-who-is-not-butt-check.73309/ It can help if you check a few that you know if they are laying or not, and after that it's easier to recognize what you are seeing/feeling on the others. A hen with a big red comb is...
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    Straight comb with green egg

    With that cross, you should get about a 50/50 split of chicks that inherit the blue egg gene, and chicks that do not inherit the blue egg gene. With both parents having single (straight) comb, all chicks will have single comb. Yes, there was a very small chance of getting single comb/blue egg...
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    Dose cracked corn keep chickens warm

    Digesting food does help the chickens stay warm. Corn is better than nothing at all (starving chickens do get cold). No-one is arguing with that. The real question would be whether digesting corn is better than digesting other feed, like layer pellets or all-flock feed or whatever else the main...
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    Is overall health tied to breed?

    It feels like half the time I'm the one asking what an abbreviation means, and the other half of the time I'm the one telling someone else what an abbreviation means :D
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    Is overall health tied to breed?

    White Faced Black Spanish (a breed of chicken) Infections Bronchitis Virus
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    Confused on gender

    You could just dispatch him now. If bullying is the issue, he might get a bit bigger if you can separate him and make sure he gets plenty to eat. But he might not get enough bigger to make it worth your time and effort and the food to do that. If he actually is sick, you might not want to eat...
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    How to regulate egg laying

    People usually complain that their hens lay well in the summer, but take a break in the winter when the days get shorter. If yours have light at all times in the winter (heat lamp for the water), I wonder if they experience the spring as having "shorter" days, and that is why they lay fewer...
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    Dominant hen or roo? (Meet Butter)

    https://hoovershatchery.com/rainbow Hoovers does have a specific group of chickens they call "Rainbow." The photo shows chickens in a variety of colors, some of them quite similar to yours. Those Rainbows are not a pure breed, but they have been selected and bred to have certain traits (such as...
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    How high quality are these Ameraucanas?

    I've used this place once: https://iqbirdtesting.com They've got a test for a blue egg gene. They keep re-arranging their site, but right now I can find it listed on this page: https://iqbirdtesting.com/order-bird-dna-test/ Scroll down and look for pictures of blue eggs ;) It's currently listed...
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    Anyone with plumbing experience can you help me out? Teying to bypass softener

    That's great news! And a good reminder about the value of cleaning things when you are trying to figure out what they are or what they do :lol:
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    How high quality are these Ameraucanas?

    That is part of why the blue egg gene test exists: breeders of purebred Ameraucanas who were trying to get rid of the not-blue-egg gene in their flock. The problem is that roosters don't lay eggs, and the blue egg gene is dominant so a hen will lay blue eggs if she has even one copy of it. So...
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    Anyone with plumbing experience can you help me out? Teying to bypass softener

    Not really good at this, but: The yellow handle turns off the water going through that pipe. I think it's going from the softener to the rest of the house, but it might be water into the softener in the first place. Either way, I do not think it will let you bypass the softener. The red handle...
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    How high quality are these Ameraucanas?

    Pea comb and blue egg are caused by genes that are linked (close together on the chromosome), so they tend to be inherited together. But they can be linked in any combination: pea comb/blue egg (Ameraucana, Araucana) pea comb/not-blue egg (Brahma, Buckeye, Chantecler) not-pea comb/blue egg...
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    Things you wish you could say

    In that case, I agree. A hard candy (contains sugar) is not a good thing to try if you need to avoid sugar. And I can see that rules out many versions of cough drops and cough syrups, too. I had guessed there might be an allergy to one or another ingredient, but I hadn't thought of the sugar...
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    Things you wish you could say

    Is this related to soothing a cough, or is it related to the general idea of sucking on a piece of hard candy? I don't know of any reason to avoid sugar when you have a cough, unless you're going to avoid the sugar at other times too.
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